Swan Song is awful. Do not bother with it. It's essentially a fanfic-quality fantasy story in which the good guys are purely good and beautiful while the bad guys are evil ugly devils. Everything works out for the good guys and they are made even more beautiful and pure while the evil ugly bad guys fail because they are dumb evil bad guys. Less important, but none of the details of the story make sense. There is no real explanation of how anyone is surviving in the post-apocalyptic world. No explanation for how they continue to find fuel and food for themselves. Despite that, lots of descriptions of violence and suffering. So, it all just feels unearned, unmotivated, and fake cheap allegory.
Cormac. He has never written anything but greatness. My favorite is All The Pretty Horses. I take that back. I can never decide which of his is my favorite. Blood Meridian is often touted as his greatest, and makes The Road come across as a rom-com it's so bleak. They are all great. Recommend.
No one mentions Justin Cronin’s The Passage, which is the first book of a trilogy. I like the story better than The Stand or Swan Song. I’ve read it twice.
@@laurasedor4641 Wow, I never knew there was one. I don't want to sound all hoity, but I don't really watch TV. I tried to watch Game of Thrones, but I found it very cheesy compared to my imagination and watching it was ruing my remembrance of the books, so I stopped. I knew what was going to happen anyway, so why bother?
Earth Abides by Stewart is the granddaddy of all end of life as we know it novels. It was written in the 1940s and is still the best for conveying what it would feel like to be one of a few survivors, meaning you have lost everyone and everything that made life meaningful. It's also very hopeful as people do adjust and find hope. Another that is more of a curiosity is The Last Man by Mary Shelley. She wrote it after Frankenstein The writing is very Victorian but it's an interesting read.
Never saw any of your videos before this. I have read 5 of the books on your list and now have added the other 5 to my TBR. I'm going to watch some of your other videos now because it appears we might enjoy similar books. Thanks for the list.
The Windup Girl, thank you, no one on booktube talks about it and it's such a good book. It is a little hard to recommend though,with how graphic some of the scenes are.
I love The Road too. One that I also really enjoyed was Station Eleven, love it as much as The Road. It also has a great adaptation (1 season) on HBO they changed a few things but both are amazing
Can't argue with any of your choices. Check out "Lucifer's Hammer" by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. And the "Island in the Sea of Time" and "Dies The Fire" by S.M. Stirling. Two sides of the same series. Also by S.M. Stirling is his "T2" trilogy, which is about a million times better than any of the awful Terminator sequels we received.
One that I've recently moved up into my top 10 dystopian list is "I Who Have Never Known Men" by Jacqueline Harpman. It's almost a novella really, but such an interesting and mysterious world she created.
@@kacie-jobradford2632 had never heard of that one before, just looked it up and it looks so good, Going to get a copy asap, appreciate the recommendation thank you!!
Great list and hello from Australia. One of our most treasured literary authors (Tim Winton) has just released a new book called Juice. It's post apocalyptic Australia but not in that Mad Max style. Apparently it's pretty darn good. It might be your bag.
Yep, of those i've read, no "crazy" entries :). Time to re-read 'The Road' I think, everyone keeps saying how depressing it is but I found the ending kind of beautiful (so maybe i'm just in denial :). (some recs in the same vein: "Ice" by Anna Kavan and "Riddley Walker" by Russell Hoban - both of which aren't going to be for everyone i'd say - and "The Dog Stars" by Peter Heller which is similarly niche in that it'll only appeal to humans _with_ hearts :)
Stalker is my favorite foreign film but i realize that ive never read the book 🤦♀️ Windup Girl is on my top 10 of any genre 🙌🏻 Handmaids Tale is in my top 10 dystopian 🤓 Great video 🎉
For sheer entertainment I'd recommend The Rising and City of the Dead by Brian Keene. It's a zombie apocalyse with a bit of a twist. He's also got a couple related books set in that world as well as the Dead Sea series. Then there is Earthworm Gods (aka Conqueror Worms) which has more of a Lovecraftian feel.
I love Keene. The Rising is my favorite zombie novel. I got fired from a job to go to a book signing of his leading to, IMO, coolest notes. In my copy of Kill Whitey it says "I'm sorry you lost your job to get this signature."
Fahrenheit 451 is one of my all time favorites. Except for it and Brand New World and 1984 (which I loved as well), I haven't read any of the others. Thank you for the discoveries! Great videos.
I just finished this one a couple weeks ago. I wouldn't consider it to be as action-filled as ,say, The Stand, but it's a very human story. I think it approaches the end of the world from a more philosophical perspective and eventually touches on things people would inevitably have to consider. I also enjoyed how it touches on how children would react to life when "after" is all they'd ever known. Maybe a little long but well worth the read. It's also interesting that it inspired King to write The Stand, which involves 2 groups on their respective odyssies, while Earth Abides mostly takes place in one neighborhood.
It's a short story, not a novel, but I feel like a list like this should always mention "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison. Great list, BTW.
Not a book, but check out Before We Vanish (2017) and it's sequel Foreboding (2017). Both stories are about the same alien invasion and how humanity deals with a national crisis of an enemy that cannot be controlled. It is from the director of Pulse which is another under-rated dystopian as well.
Great list! Love to see Metro and Roadside Picnic since they are lesser known to most audiences compared to the others on the list. I will list some below that I enjoyed that you might as well since you are a fan. Children of Men by PD James Summer of the Apocalypse by James Van Pelt Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt Wolf and Iron by Gordon R. Dickson Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh Slow Apocalypse by John Varley Swan Song by Robert McCammon The Rift by Walter Jon Williams The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood Earth Abides by George R Stewart The Postman by David Brin Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank War Day by Whitley Strieber
Would love to hear a list of books to introduce young readers to the different genres you speak on. AP English teacher had us read Kafka on the Shore, and that was my introduction to Murakami
@sheepcouldtalk OH my gosh, your teacher just threw you in the deep end like that. Wow. I would have started you on Murakami a little easier than that, lol
@@romeronyc Read then both SOOOOO many years ago. I think Alas Babylon was the first post apocalyptic novel I ever read. And On The Beach has always haunted me. I have never forgotten them.
That’s a great list! If you want to try more of a pulp dystopian novel try Deathlands by Jack Adrian. It’s a series that started in 1987 and went on and on with various authors using this same name. They are fun.
If you haven't read We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, you should try it. It's the OG dystopian novel from 1924, written by yet another Russian author. Some say it influenced the big three, but they deny it. 1984 is quite similar in my opinion.
I Am Legend is a great book. I read it in a day a few years ago. It's that good. 1984 at number three? Room 101 for you, then. Most of the others I can live without reading.
I just finished The Stand today (for the second time) and am going right into Swan Song for the second time as well. Both are great! I will also say that I was let down by The Stand’s ending the first time but after reading it again, 15 yrs later, I think the ending holds up to the rest of the book. Great video and now I have some new suggestions I was unaware of. Thank you!
I have always thought yhe meaning to The Road is thay beauty, goodness and hope are everywhere, more so when it seems they are lost. It always makes me feel better.
If you have not read "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, you have to. Orwell potentially ripped his ideas from Zamyatin's book. Now, Orwell wrote the better book! 💯 But, if you'd like to see where it all (likely) stemmed from, check out We. It's another Russian author. There's lots of number usage in the book. Additionally, if you liked Orgy Porgy (Brave New World) you might enjoy We even better than I did. We was a ⭐⭐⭐ and Orgy Porgy was a ⭐⭐. I hope I've piqued your interest. Also, if you'd like to try a more quiet SoC style PA/Dyst book, check out I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. It's a short, un-put-down-able book about what it means to be human. And if you like THAT, check out The Wall by Marlen Haushofer. Both of these were ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for me.
Yeah, ever since i read The Road it has been my top 1 post-apocalyptic book/movie. I know people love Swan Song, but for me i was loving it until almost the half, i didn't like the turn the book take by the end.
Metro was so not what I expected, I don't know what I expected but not this. I really loved it and although it was grim, it was still uplifting for me. Am I weird?
@@rammelbroadcasting You should read it, it's a unique take on the post-apocalyptic genre. I believe Day of the Triffids should at least have an honourable mention in the list of post-apocalyptic books. Another thing is that this is mostly a list of dystopian books at least half of them are not post-apocalyptic at all. And I have doubts that there are ten good enough purely post-apocalyptic books to make a top 10 list.
Totally agree with The Road as No. 1. Another one I would put on this list (maybe No. 2 for me) is The Wake, by Paul Kingsnorth. In that novel, the apocalypse is really the twin blows of the Christianization and the Norman conquest of England. The narrator is a narcissistic reactionary (even by 1066 standards!) who gradually loses his grip on reality over the course of the story. The prose is extraordinary - stripped entirely of latinate diction, filled with archaic spellings and grammar and even a few Old English words.
@WeirdSchizo I say go for it. However you prefer to consume books is fine. I know there are some gatekeepers out there, but don't listen to them, lol. I almost always have an audio book downloaded to listen to as I drive or do chores, and I love it. I actually read the books the old-fashioned way when I'm not listening, so I kinda listen to a chapter, then read from the book for a chapter and so on. But you do you, that's what I say.
Definitely some good ones...a couple i wasn't a big fan of. But some other options I enjoy. Swan Song by Robert McCammom One Second After by William R. Forstchen Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank Anthem by Ayn Rand Wayward Pines by Blake Crouch A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Dead City by Joe McKinney The Giver by Lois Lowry
Swan Song is terrible and ridiculous. I've never met anyone that enjoys it that also enjoys anything, well, good tbh. But they are obsessed. Hard pass. No Parable of the Sower or Handmaid's Tale is disappointing but the inclusion of Russian books is good.
The Road is the most overrated book ever written. It's a couple hundred pages of Cormac using mediocre prose telling the story of a whiny worthless child who cries cry literally every paragraph. That's it. I just don't get it.
@@russ9117 I'm pretty critical in my reading... And I thoroughly enjoyed it. To each their own, I guess. Now, if you would like to collectively bash Orgy Porgy (Brave New World), I'm game. 🤣
Great list! If you haven’t read Swan Song, you should.
@@HunterHilly I haven't. I'll have to check it out.
@@rammelbroadcasting incredible post apocalyptic…
+1 for Swan Song
Swan song was very good
Swan Song is awful. Do not bother with it. It's essentially a fanfic-quality fantasy story in which the good guys are purely good and beautiful while the bad guys are evil ugly devils. Everything works out for the good guys and they are made even more beautiful and pure while the evil ugly bad guys fail because they are dumb evil bad guys. Less important, but none of the details of the story make sense. There is no real explanation of how anyone is surviving in the post-apocalyptic world. No explanation for how they continue to find fuel and food for themselves. Despite that, lots of descriptions of violence and suffering. So, it all just feels unearned, unmotivated, and fake cheap allegory.
Cormac. He has never written anything but greatness. My favorite is All The Pretty Horses. I take that back. I can never decide which of his is my favorite. Blood Meridian is often touted as his greatest, and makes The Road come across as a rom-com it's so bleak. They are all great. Recommend.
Day of the Triffids is a great read
No one mentions Justin Cronin’s The Passage, which is the first book of a trilogy. I like the story better than The Stand or Swan Song. I’ve read it twice.
YES The Passage was really really good. So disappointed about the TV series.
@@laurasedor4641 Wow, I never knew there was one. I don't want to sound all hoity, but I don't really watch TV. I tried to watch Game of Thrones, but I found it very cheesy compared to my imagination and watching it was ruing my remembrance of the books, so I stopped. I knew what was going to happen anyway, so why bother?
Some mentions on the apocalyptic spin
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Lucifer’s Hammer by Jerry Pournelle & David Niven
I agree with your final choice. The Road is one of my all-time faves. I recommended this book to my sons.
Earth Abides by Stewart is the granddaddy of all end of life as we know it novels. It was written in the 1940s and is still the best for conveying what it would feel like to be one of a few survivors, meaning you have lost everyone and everything that made life meaningful. It's also very hopeful as people do adjust and find hope.
Another that is more of a curiosity is The Last Man by Mary Shelley. She wrote it after Frankenstein The writing is very Victorian but it's an interesting read.
I'm really curious about the last man.
Never saw any of your videos before this. I have read 5 of the books on your list and now have added the other 5 to my TBR. I'm going to watch some of your other videos now because it appears we might enjoy similar books. Thanks for the list.
I would have included Earth Abides by George R. Stewart.
The Windup Girl, thank you, no one on booktube talks about it and it's such a good book. It is a little hard to recommend though,with how graphic some of the scenes are.
What I love about Roadside Picnic is how it went media full circle being made into a movie (Stalker by Tarkovsky) and video game (the Stalker games).
I agree. I can't wait for the new stalker game next month!
Love the Stalker series, though they're very LOOSE adaptations
I preferred the uncut version of The Stand, but it also made me appreciate that not all editing is a bad thing.
Roadside picknick is my absolute all time favorite. Nr 1.
And happy to hear you mention Dr Bloodmoney an other favorite of mine 🤗
excellent top 10 list and i am happy that metro getting recognition .
I love The Road too. One that I also really enjoyed was Station Eleven, love it as much as The Road. It also has a great adaptation (1 season) on HBO they changed a few things but both are amazing
I'll have to check that one out
Thanks for the fabulous list. I would have included "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia E. Butler. If you haven't read it, I would definitely recommend.
I don't think I'll ever read another Butler after reading Dawn. 🤮
Can't argue with any of your choices. Check out "Lucifer's Hammer" by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. And the "Island in the Sea of Time" and "Dies The Fire" by S.M. Stirling. Two sides of the same series. Also by S.M. Stirling is his "T2" trilogy, which is about a million times better than any of the awful Terminator sequels we received.
One that I've recently moved up into my top 10 dystopian list is "I Who Have Never Known Men" by Jacqueline Harpman. It's almost a novella really, but such an interesting and mysterious world she created.
@@braedyt Love this book! 🙌 Have you read The Wall by Marlen Haushofer? I think you'd enjoy it!
@@kacie-jobradford2632 had never heard of that one before, just looked it up and it looks so good, Going to get a copy asap, appreciate the recommendation thank you!!
Great list and hello from Australia. One of our most treasured literary authors (Tim Winton) has just released a new book called Juice. It's post apocalyptic Australia but not in that Mad Max style. Apparently it's pretty darn good. It might be your bag.
Yep, of those i've read, no "crazy" entries :). Time to re-read 'The Road' I think, everyone keeps saying how depressing it is but I found the ending kind of beautiful (so maybe i'm just in denial :).
(some recs in the same vein: "Ice" by Anna Kavan and "Riddley Walker" by Russell Hoban - both of which aren't going to be for everyone i'd say - and "The Dog Stars" by Peter Heller which is similarly niche in that it'll only appeal to humans _with_ hearts :)
Love The Road. It's a masterpiece. Just picked up the graphic novel edition as well and looking forward to reading through that 👌🏻
It's a depressingly themed book, for sure. But, AT NO POINT did The Road make me cry!!! I think it can be quite affecting for dads.
The scariest thing about 1984 isn't that Big Brother wants to control you. It is that Big Brother wants you to love him.
Stalker is my favorite foreign film but i realize that ive never read the book 🤦♀️
Windup Girl is on my top 10 of any genre 🙌🏻
Handmaids Tale is in my top 10 dystopian 🤓
Great video 🎉
For sheer entertainment I'd recommend The Rising and City of the Dead by Brian Keene. It's a zombie apocalyse with a bit of a twist. He's also got a couple related books set in that world as well as the Dead Sea series. Then there is Earthworm Gods (aka Conqueror Worms) which has more of a Lovecraftian feel.
Keene is great in general. Working my way through his catalogue. I have read 8 of his books so far.
I love Keene. The Rising is my favorite zombie novel. I got fired from a job to go to a book signing of his leading to, IMO, coolest notes. In my copy of Kill Whitey it says "I'm sorry you lost your job to get this signature."
swan song would crack your top 5 for sure I'd bet
Fahrenheit 451 is one of my all time favorites. Except for it and Brand New World and 1984 (which I loved as well), I haven't read any of the others. Thank you for the discoveries! Great videos.
Really enjoy your videos! Helps me add to my never ending list of books to check out. :)
@@JennaWeisz Thanks!
I just wanted to stop by and say your videos are awesome. Keep up the great work!
@@JesseRad Thank you.
Another amazing book is "One Second After" Every one That borrowed my book loved it.
Fantastic list! I enjoyed all of these gems
I’d recommend Earth Abides by George Stewart for a different flavor of post apocalyptic. It inspired Stephen King to write The Stand
I just finished this one a couple weeks ago. I wouldn't consider it to be as action-filled as ,say, The Stand, but it's a very human story. I think it approaches the end of the world from a more philosophical perspective and eventually touches on things people would inevitably have to consider. I also enjoyed how it touches on how children would react to life when "after" is all they'd ever known. Maybe a little long but well worth the read.
It's also interesting that it inspired King to write The Stand, which involves 2 groups on their respective odyssies, while Earth Abides mostly takes place in one neighborhood.
It's a short story, not a novel, but I feel like a list like this should always mention "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison. Great list, BTW.
I love that story. I did a whole video on it and the rest of that collection.
@@rammelbroadcasting Oh wow! I'll look it up and watch it. Thanks.
Not a book, but check out Before We Vanish (2017) and it's sequel Foreboding (2017). Both stories are about the same alien invasion and how humanity deals with a national crisis of an enemy that cannot be controlled. It is from the director of Pulse which is another under-rated dystopian as well.
Great list! Love to see Metro and Roadside Picnic since they are lesser known to most audiences compared to the others on the list. I will list some below that I enjoyed that you might as well since you are a fan.
Children of Men by PD James
Summer of the Apocalypse by James Van Pelt
Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt
Wolf and Iron by Gordon R. Dickson
Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh
Slow Apocalypse by John Varley
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
The Rift by Walter Jon Williams
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Earth Abides by George R Stewart
The Postman by David Brin
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
War Day by Whitley Strieber
Would love to hear a list of books to introduce young readers to the different genres you speak on. AP English teacher had us read Kafka on the Shore, and that was my introduction to Murakami
@sheepcouldtalk OH my gosh, your teacher just threw you in the deep end like that. Wow. I would have started you on Murakami a little easier than that, lol
On The Beach by Nevil Shute and Alas Babylon by Pat Frank
Two of my favorite post-apocalyptic novels but I must give the edge to Alas Babylon.
@@romeronyc Read then both SOOOOO many years ago. I think Alas Babylon was the first post apocalyptic novel I ever read. And On The Beach has always haunted me. I have never forgotten them.
That’s a great list!
If you want to try more of a pulp dystopian novel try Deathlands by Jack Adrian. It’s a series that started in 1987 and went on and on with various authors using this same name. They are fun.
Sounds interesting
Great list. I wasn't surprised that The Handmaid's Tale wasn't on it, though. I'd also recommend The Chrysalids and Swan Song.
I haven't actually read anything from Atwood yet. I was going to start with Oryx and Crake.
@@rammelbroadcasting That's a good one, although The Handmaid's Tale is better. I haven't read the sequels to Oryx and Crake (Maddaddam trilogy).
I kept wondering when you’d mention The Road lol
If you haven't read We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, you should try it. It's the OG dystopian novel from 1924, written by yet another Russian author. Some say it influenced the big three, but they deny it. 1984 is quite similar in my opinion.
I've heard of it but never read it. Now I want to move it up on my TBR because I always hear good things about it.
@@haxxy40 It definitely influenced 1984! Without a doubt!
Two series that are amazing 1.) The Bane series by Keary Taylor and 2.) The Born series by Tara Brown.
I Am Legend is a great book. I read it in a day a few years ago. It's that good.
1984 at number three? Room 101 for you, then.
Most of the others I can live without reading.
1984...We are living it now
Adrian’s Undead Diary series…the best
M-O-O-N that spells 1984! Great books! Looking forward to reading a few I haven't heard of before, such as Canticle. Thank you for the suggestions!
@@LadyValkyri no problem 👍
Great list! I just received Metro 2033, 2034, 2035 in Russian language. I should get to them after I'm done reading Boy's Life by Robert McCammon.
Awesome! Hope you enjoy them!
I just finished The Stand today (for the second time) and am going right into Swan Song for the second time as well. Both are great! I will also say that I was let down by The Stand’s ending the first time but after reading it again, 15 yrs later, I think the ending holds up to the rest of the book.
Great video and now I have some new suggestions I was unaware of. Thank you!
I have always thought yhe meaning to The Road is thay beauty, goodness and hope are everywhere, more so when it seems they are lost. It always makes me feel better.
@@courtneytrammell9474 My biggest takeaway is that, just because you are not a bad guy, doesn't necessarily mean you are a good guy.
If you have not read "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, you have to. Orwell potentially ripped his ideas from Zamyatin's book. Now, Orwell wrote the better book! 💯 But, if you'd like to see where it all (likely) stemmed from, check out We. It's another Russian author. There's lots of number usage in the book. Additionally, if you liked Orgy Porgy (Brave New World) you might enjoy We even better than I did. We was a ⭐⭐⭐ and Orgy Porgy was a ⭐⭐. I hope I've piqued your interest. Also, if you'd like to try a more quiet SoC style PA/Dyst book, check out I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. It's a short, un-put-down-able book about what it means to be human. And if you like THAT, check out The Wall by Marlen Haushofer. Both of these were ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for me.
Highly recommend Blood Meridian.
Yeah, ever since i read The Road it has been my top 1 post-apocalyptic book/movie.
I know people love Swan Song, but for me i was loving it until almost the half, i didn't like the turn the book take by the end.
Excellent list.
Metro was so not what I expected, I don't know what I expected but not this. I really loved it and although it was grim, it was still uplifting for me. Am I weird?
No I don't think you are lol
Great list. ❤
@@freespirit4574 Thank you.
Hey, what do you think about Postman by David Brin? Also I was surprised I didn't see Triffids Day there judging how influential it was.
I haven't read the postman, so I can't speak on it. I have read the day of the triffids, and it's pretty great. I just like these ones better 🤷♂️
@@rammelbroadcasting You should read it, it's a unique take on the post-apocalyptic genre. I believe Day of the Triffids should at least have an honourable mention in the list of post-apocalyptic books. Another thing is that this is mostly a list of dystopian books at least half of them are not post-apocalyptic at all. And I have doubts that there are ten good enough purely post-apocalyptic books to make a top 10 list.
I will not name the Book, you did. A super advanced civilization finds out their their civilization is based on a grocery shopping list. Just Sayin.
Read swan song! It will go to your top 5.
Metro 2033 Reading it, these days.
Totally agree with The Road as No. 1. Another one I would put on this list (maybe No. 2 for me) is The Wake, by Paul Kingsnorth. In that novel, the apocalypse is really the twin blows of the Christianization and the Norman conquest of England. The narrator is a narcissistic reactionary (even by 1066 standards!) who gradually loses his grip on reality over the course of the story. The prose is extraordinary - stripped entirely of latinate diction, filled with archaic spellings and grammar and even a few Old English words.
Is it okay to listen to audio books instead of reading or is that considered barbaric in book enthusiast circles?
@WeirdSchizo I say go for it. However you prefer to consume books is fine. I know there are some gatekeepers out there, but don't listen to them, lol. I almost always have an audio book downloaded to listen to as I drive or do chores, and I love it. I actually read the books the old-fashioned way when I'm not listening, so I kinda listen to a chapter, then read from the book for a chapter and so on. But you do you, that's what I say.
Definitely some good ones...a couple i wasn't a big fan of.
But some other options I enjoy.
Swan Song by Robert McCammom
One Second After by William R. Forstchen
Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Wayward Pines by Blake Crouch
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Dead City by Joe McKinney
The Giver by Lois Lowry
What editions are those for The Road and 1984? they look so beautiful
The folio society
Swan Song-Top shelf!!
Jumping Out of Cars by Jeff Noon
Good topic.the thing is that i see it in real life in retrospective.like 30 years.people arive from 3 world with nothing.psople dead sudenly...
I am legend the book is just vastly different from the movie
Yes. Leibowitz was nuke. Happens again at the end. Ever read Lord of the World?
I haven't read that one. BTW I picked up a book from the PO box, and I think it was the one you were talking about.
Awesome. I hope you enjoy it
Good talk.intel
Swan Song is terrible and ridiculous. I've never met anyone that enjoys it that also enjoys anything, well, good tbh. But they are obsessed. Hard pass.
No Parable of the Sower or Handmaid's Tale is disappointing but the inclusion of Russian books is good.
How does Swan Song not make this list? The Road isn’t that great.
The Road is the most overrated book ever written. It's a couple hundred pages of Cormac using mediocre prose telling the story of a whiny worthless child who cries cry literally every paragraph. That's it. I just don't get it.
@@russ9117 I'm pretty critical in my reading... And I thoroughly enjoyed it. To each their own, I guess. Now, if you would like to collectively bash Orgy Porgy (Brave New World), I'm game. 🤣
@@russ9117 But, The Road is a couple hundred pages of the MC putting things in his pocket. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 But, it makes a great drinking game!